[ABE-L] Fw: Workshop on Longitudinal and Survival data, Warwick

[Alexandra M. Schmidt]

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You are kindly invited to participate in the:

"Workshop on Flexible Models for Longitudinal and Survival Data with
Applications in Biostatistics (27th-29th July, 2015)"

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/crism/workshops/fmlsjd

This workshop aims to bring together statisticians and applied
practitioners working in the areas of longitudinal models, survival
models, and joint models for longitudinal and survival data, with a
special focus on the impact of the use of flexible distributional
assumptions. The workshop is divided into three parts:  Longitudinal
Modelling (27th July), Survival Modelling (28th July), and Joint
Modelling (29th July).

The workshop features world-renowned speakers, with keynote
presentations from:

  1. Rebecca Betensky http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/rebecca-betensky/ -
     Harvard School of Public Health
  2. David Cox
     http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/people/associate_staff/david_cox -
     University of Oxford
  3. Michael J. Crowther

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences/research/biostats/staff-pages/mjc76
     - University of Leicester
  4. Vern Farewell

http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/people/in-alphabetical-order/a-to-g/vern-farewell/
     - MRC Cambridge
  5. Pulak Ghosh http://www.iimb.ernet.in/user/165/pulak-ghosh - Indian
     Institute of Management Bangalore
  6. Arnošt Komárek http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/%7Ekomarek/ - Charles
     University in Prague
  7. Peter Müller http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/pmueller/ - University
     of Texas Austin
  8. Cecile Proust-Lima
     http://www.isped.u-bordeaux2.fr/FR_HTM_annuaire.aspx?CLE_PERSONNE'2
     - INSERM U897, Biostatistics department
  9. Bernard Rachet
     http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/rachet.bernard - The London
     School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
10. Dimitris Rizopoulos
     http://www.erasmusmc.nl/biostatistiek/People/Faculty/drizopoulos/
     - Erasmus MC

We provide funding for ten career-young researchers (now allocated). We
aim to create a stimulating environment where established and
career-young researchers can interact. The workshop also includes a
poster session. If you would like to present a poster, please send an
abstract to Francisco.Rubio em warwick.ac.uk.

The workshop is funded by EPSRC and organised through CRiSM (Centre for
Research in Statistical Methodology, University of Warwick).

We very much look forward to seeing you at Warwick for this exciting event!

Organisers:
Mark F. J. Steel,
Javier Rubio,
Department of Statistics,
University of Warwick.
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Alexandra Mello Schmidt
Professor in Statistics
Departamento de Metodos Estatisticos
IM - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Caixa Postal 68530 Rio de Janeiro - RJ 
CEP:21.945-970 Brasil
Tel: 0055 21 3938 7505 Ramal (Extension) 240
Fax: 0055 21 3938 7374

www.dme.ufrj.br/~alex
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